A man with his six children and another man standing outside a sod house. The sod house shows one window and a doorway with a sod roof. There are three chairs, one is a rocking chair. A dog is on one chair and a girl on another. One boy has a book...

A sod house near Fairdale, N.D. with a pitched roof, window, door and stovepipe showing. Pictured to one side of the house are the photographer's daughters, the eldest is named Esther, the other is unidentified. There are plants growing out of the...

A sod house near Fairdale, N.D. with a pitched roof, window, door and stovepipe showing. Pictured to one side of the house are the photographer's daughters, the eldest is named Esther, the other is unidentified. There are plants growing out of the...

Three men, a woman, and baby in a baby carriage outside a sod house. To left are two oxen and a horse. The sod house shows a window, stovepipe, and a sod roof with plants growing on it. One man has a rifle in his hands; seated man on a barrel has a...

Two story brick Italianate style house with front bay window. Two women are seated in front. A picket fence is visible between the house and the photographer. Several trees obscure part of house from view.

Formal studio family portrait of elderly couple with their seven adult children. The image contains five males and four females. The second male from the left and the second female from the right in the back row appear to have been inserted by the...

Seven men and two women posing in shade of shelter made of tree boughs fixed to upright posts. Brush fence surrounds tent in background. Possibly Major James Montgomery Bell, military escort for Northern Pacific Railroad.

Men driving wagons loaded with dirt through deep ruts in rail road cut in hillside. In distance wooden buildings, tents and covered wagons of construction workers camp, located between Eldridge and Windsor, N.D.